In The News

12/19/2011 - See the story of our 7000th wish, Lane’s Star Wars wish, on CNN video!

10/18/2011 - Local wish kid Lane was our chapter’s 7000th wish! Find out what his special wish was as WJLA covers the story here.
7/2/11 - Local wish kid Hunter wished to give back: His wish was for a science lab at school.
4/29/11 - Local wish kid Maureen’s wish to go to Santorini, Greece was a part of a World Wish Day^® celebration at the Greek Embassy.

• View Fox 5’s coverage
• For our Greek friends, read all about Maureen’s send-off party in “Voice of America” (article in Greek).
• Read about the Greek Embassy hosting Maureen’s wish send-off party on World Wish Day.
• Great Falls Connection highlights local wish kid, Maureen.

4/22/2011 - LOCAL HARD ROCK CAFES PARTNER WITH MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION®
of the Mid-Atlantic to Help Make Local Wishes Come True

4/2/11 - Watch five-year-old William’s wish to be A Washington Capital for a Day come true!

• Five-year-old local wish child, William, experiences his greatest wish to be a Washington Capitals player for a day!
• Click here to see William on WUSA9-TV!
• See William’s wish on the Washington Capitals website.
• Read all about his wish on the Washington Times.

3/22/11 - Read and watch the Washington Capitals coverage of Ryan’s wish to meet Alex Ovechkin!

3/9/11 - Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic hosts a wish child to meet Washington Capital’s Alex Ovechkin. Watch the NBC Washington news coverage here.

1/17/2011 - American University’s WAMU interviews a wish child’s family and Mid-Atlantic chapter President & CEO about wishes and dreams in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

12/27/2010 - View CNN’s “Dancing into Remission,” a brief and very moving story about Theresa from Kensington, MD, whose wish last year to be a ballerina inspired the Washington Ballet to invite her to a walk-on role this year in their extraordinary performance of the Nutcracker Suite.

12/15/2010 - The Examiner records wish child, N’Dea, at her send off party hosted by Macy’s on National Believe Day.

12/6/2010 - President and CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic interviewed by Comcast Newsmakers series on HLN (CNN Headline News)